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~ ts7f t n ( ikou-va yak umax i v-,r two dolmt-s-payabl in f ... v ,â€ž.: paid n dvance.two dollars ' â€ž :â€žâ€¢ charged msertrdat Â« i for the firet,and2acts , sequent insertion coai-ordera Â» - u than these rates a lib - Â»!>.' advertise by ihe year r most be post pa.d . in i i.ictlitkal ca lities ov california lvnrew wiihams lately delivered an i mÂ»1 ... i i n the mineral and agricultural f california before a numerous f he friends ol agriculture in san j . address contains one of the â€ž arj statements ol fads we have * ' yu e nre-eiit to our readers a few remaikable passages from a report ' c f . .< tco herald :â€” . o ibe oih't states a single excel ie ii?iic ami predominant the \| . e ib granite of new llamp \ ermont the manufactures ol .. the agriculture ol new york n ,,. pennsylvania ib grain and ,; , and western states the i micbigso he corn lobecco and virginia and kentucky the cotton of . iu aud georgia ihe sugar of louisiana co tton and indigo of texas lhe tur "'>' jiih carolina and ihe rice ol south cutisti'-ute respectively their mosl prom . mctive in.erests and are the pride 0 i iheir citizens bul there is scarce - â– ibal cat.nol he found or produced - ite in ihe natural productions .. lucive io ihe sustenance ot man . lta abundantly prolific pi.roacb ibe centre of the slate the buige lise lemon lhe olive ihe tig ibe nectarine the almond the he pomegranate ol lhe south min us luxuriant gardens ol los an peach the pear ihe cherry ibe m ihe mince and the apple of the north be oak and lhe pine ol gigantic , u j taste furnishing to man and richest and most nutritious food ihe salmon of noble sacramento olten â– ,:, . :â– ,... jv tori v and iu some insiances .... living wiih any eiiher in fineness mil richness ol flavor as well as in ; one uncommon aitide of fine while â– exudation ol a species of pine tree , suyai pine ; the successive range of . whose exleul is losi lo view in the waving with rich harvests of oats the __ productions of lhe soii solid tiees j wood on the hanks ol ihe trinity and statu rivers sixty-eight leei in circumference ; ., whose cavity has sheltered sixteen twenty mules lor the nijjhl ; pines o ibe dizzy peaks of ihe sierra nevada redaiideighiy leet iu height the firsl iwokuttdred and till v leet wiihout a branch or i iab ao extent ul growth so lar beyond the size a lo seem almost incredible but n kouwo and seen and verified by the uni km and ______ rent testimony of many whom ing around me ***** h land owned and cultivated by mr james ii mm and cnion grew lo the enormous _-. i twenty-one pounds ; on ihis same land was grown which equaled exactly in at ibe head of a flour barrel on land own ivaied in thomas follen a cab . grew which measuied while growing feet six inches around iis body ; iis right not known the various cereal grains ng to a height ol irom six to twelve :_'. one red-wood nee in he valley known ! u fremont's iree measures over fifty leet in j tire and is nearly three hundred teet â– .. added lo ihese astonishing productions bi beet grown by mr isaac _-__..._,_... at ! bujose weighing sixty ihiee pounds carrots ! itwleei in length weighing lorly pounds â€” j ** a q js a turnip weighing one hundred la lhe latter cily al a party tor twelve j a miigle potato larger lhan lhe size ' nary bai all partook leaving at least il untouched jii.iv he superlatives but they do exist 1 â– show what our climate and soil are ol producing nor are these more incredible lhan lhe well known fact portion ol our stale nearly six hundred engtb and tilty in breadth whose ev j ground from bill lop to valley is -_ impregnated wilh gold ol every 1 torui and size irom dust up to lumps . thirty pounds j cast our eyes around ihis hall and a e see even bom this hasty collection l contribution ! an agricultural bo geological mineral and floral exhibition j nearly one thousand varieiies of wi bowers ol every hue and of surpass i utcy nearly two hundred varieiies of ii sowers of every hue and ol surpassing â€¢â€¢ nearly two hundred varieiies of â€¢ rated by truthful and beautiful seed of more lhan three thousand v flowers ; twenty varieties of ilbous tools embracing lhe re uii rivaling the finest boast jidding io its healing qualities ovided b nature lor the double purpose .. and abluent properties for ihe native ?; ; specimens of one thousand ' ul i't 1 principle quartz veins and soils : p 'â€¢ about twenty varieties of ihe prin v e * ami clovers many of the specimens , bbrartng the i.urt clover lhat feeds to , [ ! be ratife ol a thousand hills when is parched and withered s mammoth clover whose sialk irom covered an area ol thirty-one square ; ' fine stalks six leet long a half inch " r - am ihe clover head tive inches in ! re ee single stalks of the while lily . "<:Â«' hundred flowers of indescribable nd beauty ; beautiful specimens of :,, j 8 and passed flowers from h prat v of nevada ; stalks of ihe oats gaih "â€¢ shei/tox ihirteen feel high ; spec alieai and barley having one hundred lll l iwo hundred mammoth stalks -' rom one root the produce of a sin liie sng.tr bee grown by mr l d i of san jose iwenly-eight inches in ! "' li e and weighing forty seven pounds " > h " luxuriant gardens of alderman ">, ol only iwo months grow'.h - 5 " r seven pounds ; cucumbers rais nj 'Â»". eighteen inches in length ; on m ? ; b ;.; td '<>â– me mr s cbamberlnin and 1 Â«. ub sl1 a " c beven inches in diameter j g ibree and lour pounds each .' thousands pounds to an acre number from ihe acre supposed h j>r n f i 111 pach ; potatoes from mr ,' ' oanta cruz one hundred and iwen - rum five vines of a single hill ; one the carolina watchman j j bruner ) f " keep a check upon alt vour editor a proprietor ) rulers ( new series do this and liberty is safe { gent harrison ( volume viii number 39 salisbury n c thursday january 29 1852 from mr b j sievens of santa clara tliir teen inches in lengih twenty seven inches in circumference and weighing seven pounds and , a hail lhe russian bald barley grown by mr johnson on his ranch upon the banks of bear : river weighing sixty si \ pounds lo lhe bushel with a kernel nearly double lhe size of large wheal raspberries five inches in circumfeience , bailey from the san jose valley of which nine j hundred and sixty-five bushels were produced i ; from less lhan five arres of land ; some from ! the arm of madame scoofv of souora where \ twelve acres by ordinary cultivation produced j a crop of fifty-three thousand pounds these | walls festooned with lucious grapes from capt j vi all by ol los angelos â€” single bunches from j i the garden ol gen vallejo al sonoma weigh j i ing ten pounds ; apples peaches tigs and olher j : fiuils o enormous size from lhe same ; from ' mr horner tomatoes weighing two pounds i each pumpkins and squashes one hundred lo ; one hundred and lorly pounds ; cabbages two leet in diameter and weighing 50 pounds ; on ions beets and potatoes of enormous size not i isolated but by hundreds of bushels the lop j onion produced lhe first season irom the ordina | 'â– ry seed with samples of wheat and barley of uncommon size and weight ; and added lo lhe j exhibition are also beautiful specimens of da ; guerreian and photographic art irom mr shew i and also from mr bradley ; lemon syrup of ex i ceeding excellence manufacluied and exhibited | by messrs sweet and co of this city ; ex j quisite feather work by madame pa a cab d be tides samples and specimens of counties _ varie ; lies of plains herbs vines fruits grains and esculents ol exceeding size and singular perfec tion collected by mr shelion to the enuraer i alion of which lhe proper extent of this address is vvholy inadequate among the tropical pro | duciions introduced by him are coffee ginger banana plantain and pomegranate which are i now in progress of successful cultivation and he has this day received from valparaiso a choice i assortment of rare and valuable exotics the en tire stock ol a greenhouse embracing iwo hou sand of the choicest french and italian grape vines filly varieties choice pear trees six vari eties of plums three of apricots twenty of peach es five of currants and seven thousand aspar agus plains ol flowers there are fifty varie ties ol jessamines four of althea ratres or afri can hibiscus eighi ol chrysanthemums twelve of alihea the wax plant pinks cacti eighty our dahlias and over one thousand rose bushes with its gold or wiihout its gold california must be conlessed a land of wonders ! from the faye.leville observer swallow barn one of the pleasantest books that we have read in many a day is swallow barn or a sojourn in the old dominion it was published some twenty years ago and the edition was long ago sold re cently the author john p kennedy esq of baltimore has published a new re vised illustrated edition which claims a second reading and is welcomed as an old and valued acquaintance the fol lowing chapter prefalory to an admirable slory of a law suit will give some idea of the life like sketches of character with which the book abounds we have an j idea that the author in this sketch intends , to hit off the somewhat celebrated inci dent of the wind saw mill erected by mr j jefferson on one of the highest points of his famous monticello he is said to have j selected lhat site because there the wind would always keep his mill a going and j it was not till the work was almost done j his millwright asked him how he was j oing to get his logs up to the mill on the [ top of the mountain ? " i never thought | of that !" exclaimed he : " stop the work chapter xiv my grand uncle my grand uncle edward hazard the i father of waller was from all accounts a man of an active speculating turn he was always busy in schemes to improve his estate and it is said threw away a great deal of money by way of bettering his fortune he was a gentleman who had spent a considerable portion of his life in england and when he settled him self at last in possession of his patrimony at swallow barn he was filled with mag nificent projects which tradition says to hear him explain would have satisfied any man to a mathematical demonstra tion that with the expenditure ol a tew thousand pounds swallow barn would have risen one hundred percent in value ***** now it must be made known that the tract of land called the brakes belong ing to the tracy family lies adjacent to swallow barn in old times the two es tates were divided by a small stream that emptied into the james river and that is still known by the name of the apple-pie branch this rivulet traverses a range of low grounds for some miles occasional i v spreading itself out into morasses which were formerly and in some places are now overgrown with thickets ot arrow wood nine bark and various other shrubs the growth of this region the main channel of the stream ihrough these tan gled masses was generally distinct enough o be traced as a boundary line although the marsh extended some distance from each bank in the course of this stream there is one point where the higher ground of ihe country stretches in upon the bed ot the marsh from eiiher side so as to leave a gorge of about a hundred yards in j width from both of which eminences the | spectator may look back upon the low lands ofthe swamp lor nearly a mile just at tbat period of the life of my j grand uncle when his fever of improve ment had risen to its crisis and when he was daily creating immense fortunes â€” in bis dreams â€” it struck him upon looking at the fjorge i have described lhat with very little trouble and expense he might ihrow a stout breastwork from one side lo the other and have as line a mill dam as any man could possibly desire it was so simple an operation that he was surprised it bad never occurred to him before and then a flour mill might be erected a short distance below â€” which would cost but a trifle â€” and the inevitable result would be that this unprofitable tract of waste land would thereupon become the most valua ble part ofthe estate i a:n told that it belonged to the char acter of my grand uncle to fall absolutely in love with my new project he turned this one over in his mind for two or three nights ; and it became as clear to him as daylight that he was to work wonders wilh his mill so reflecting that he had but sixteen irons in the fire at ihis time he went to work wiihout a moment's delay the first thing he did was to send an order to bris ' tol for he never had any opinion of the i mechanics at home for a complete set of mill machinery ; and the second lo put j up a house of pine wealher boards for the | mill contemporaneously with this last j operation he set about lhe dam ; and in ' lhe course of one summer he had a huge j breastwork of logs thrown across the path ! of lhe modest diminutive apple-pie which j would have terrified the stream even if it had been a giant as soon as this structure was comple ted the waters began to gather my grand uncle came down every day to look at them and as he saw them gradually encroaching upon the different little mounds ol the swamp it is said he smiled and remarked to his son walter whom he frequently took with him " that it was strange to see what results were produced by human art and it is also told of him that he made his way during this rising ol the waters to a tree in the bed of the dam to notch with his pen knife a point to which the flood would ultimately tend that while stooping to take a level wiih the breast of the dam he lost his balance and was upset into a pool formed by the encroaching element and that when walter expected to see him in a passion at this mishap he rose laughing and ob served that the bed of the dam was a damned bad bed ;" which is said to be the only pun that ever was made in the haz ard family and therefore i have put on record in a few days with the help of one or two rains the pool was completely full ; and to the infinite pleasure of my grand uncle a thin thread of water streamed over one corner of the dam â€” the most beautiful little cascade in the world ; it looked like a glossy streamer ot delicate white ribbon my grand uncle was de lighted " there my boy said he to walter " there is tivoli for you we shall have our mill a going in a week sure enough that day week off went the mill all the corn'of the farm was j brought down to this place and for an j hour or two that morning the mill clat tered away as if it had been filled wilh a j thousand iron shod devils all dancing a | scotch reel my grand uncle thumped j his cane upon the floor wilh a look of tri ; umph whilst his eyes started from his head as he frequently exclaimed to the j people about him " i told you so ; this comes of energy and foresight ; this shows j the use of a man's faculties my boy !" it was about an hour and a half or per j haps two hours as my authority affirms i after the commencement of this racket and clatter in the mill that my grand un cle and all the others who were intent upon lhe operation were a little surprised to discover that the millstone began to slacken in its speed ; the bolting cloth was manifestly moving lazily and the wheels were getting tired presently a dismal screech was heard that sounded like all j the trumpets of pandemonium blown at , once ; it was a prolonged agonizing dia bolical note that went to the very soul in the name of all the irfips ol tarta rus â€” a famous interjection of my grand uncle what is that ." " it's only the big wheel stopped as chock as a tombstone said the miller " and it naturally screech es because you see the gudgeon is new and wants grease hereupon a court of inquiry was instituted ; and leading ihe van followed by the whole troop out went my grand uncle to look at the head gate well not a thing was to be seen there but a large solitary bull-frog squatted on his hams at the bottom of the race and look ing up at bis visiters with the most pite ous and imploring countenace as much as to say " i assure you gentlemen 1 am exceedingly astonished at this extra ordinary convulsion myself which has left me as you perceive naked and dry â€” then the court proceeded upon their in vestigation towards the dam to observe how that came on i can readily imagine how my grand uncle looked when tbe scene here first pre sented itself to his view it must have been a look of droll waggish solemn si lent wonder which lor the time leaves it a matter of perfect doubt whether it is to j terminate in a laugh or a cry in the first ' place the beautiful ribbon cascade was ! clean gone in the second there were all j the little tussocks of the swamp showing ! their small green heads above the surface j of the water which would hardly have j covered one's shoe top ; and there were all j the native shrubs of the marsh bending forwards in scattered groups like a set of i rose bushes that had been visited by a j shower dripping wet and having their slender stalks tangled with weeds and there was towards the middle a litlle line : of rivulet meandering down lo the edge ! of the am and then holding its unambi i tious course parallel with the breastwork ! deploying to the left where it entered tbe i race and tripping along gently down to i the very seat of the bull-frog *' hoity i toity cried my grand uncle after he had paused long enough to find speech here j is some mistake in ihis matter now it is a principle of physics that , an exhausted receiver is the worst thing j in the world to make a draugh upon â€” ! the mill dam was like a bank that had j paid out all its specie and consequently \ could not bear the run made upon it by j the big wheel which in turn having lost ! its credit stopped payment with that hid i eous yell that wrought such a shock upon j the nerves of my grand uncle in vain did the old gentleman ransack | the stores of his philosophy to come at j this principle he studied the case for half an hour examined the dam in every part and was exceedingly perplexed â€” those rascals of muskrats bave been at work said he so the examination was conducted to this point ; but not a hole could be found " the soil is a porous open filtrating kind of soil said the old gentleman it seems to me master said an arch looking negro who was gaping over the flood gate upon the muddy waste that the mill's run out of water who asked you for your opinion you scoundrel said my grand uncle in a great fury â€” for he was now beginning to fret â€” get out of my sight and bold your tongue the fellow is right said the miller we have worked out the water that's clear !" " it's a two hour mill added the negro in a voice scarcely audible taking the risk of my grand uncle's displeasure and grin ning saucily but good humoredly as he spoke it is said that my grand uncle looked at the black with the most awful face he ever put on in his life it was blood red with anger but bethinking himself for a mo ment he remained silent as if to subdue his temper there was something however in the simple observation of the negro that re sponded exactly to my uncle's secret thoughts ; and some such conviction rising up in bis mind gradually lent its aid to smother his wrath how could he beat the poor fellow lor speaking the truth !â€” it was â€” and he now saw it written in characters that could not be mistaken â€” it was after all his trouble and expense and fond anticipations a two-hour mill j stop the mill said my grand uncle \ turning round and speaking in lhe mild j est voice to the miller " stop the mill ; we j shall discontinue ot_r work to-day squire replied the miller the mill has been as silent as a church for the last â– hour " true said mv grand uncle recollect j ing himself come walter we will mount our horses and think over this mat i ter when we get home it is very extra ordinary ! why didn't i foresee this â€” never mind we will have water enough there tomorrow my boy ?" he slowly went to the fence corner and untied his horse and got up into the sad dle as leisurely as il he had been at a fu neral walter mounled his and they both rode homeward at a walk ; my grand un cle whistling malhrouk all the way in an under key and swinging his cane round and round by lhe tassel wonders of the universe w 7 hat mere assertion will make any one believe that in one second ol time in one beat of the penpulum of a clock a ray of light travels over 152,000 miles and would therefore perform the tour of tbe world in about the same time that it requires to wink with our eyelids and in much less than a swift runner occupies in taking a single stride ! what mortal can be made to believe without demonstra tion that the sun is almost a million times larger than the earth and that altho so remote from us a cannon ball shot di rectly towards it and maintaining its lull speed would be twenty years in reaching it : yet it affects the earth by its attrac tion in an appreciable instant of time . who would not ask for demonstration when told tbat a gnat's wing in us ordi nary flight beats many hundred times in a second or that there exist animated and regularly organized beings many thousands of whose bodies laid close to getber would not extend an inch but what are these to the astonishing iru hs which modern optical inquiries have dis closed winch teach that every point ot a medium hrougb which a ray of light pas ses is affected with a succession ol peri odical movements regularly recurtng at equal intervals no less than five hundred millions of millions of times in a single second ! â€” that it is by much movements communicated to the nerves of our eyes that we see ; nay more that it is the dif ference in the frequency of their recur rence which affects us with the sense of the diversity of color that for instance in acquiring the sensation of redness our eyes are affected four hundred and eighty two millions of millions of times ; of yel lowness five hundred and forty two mill ions of millions of limes and of violet seven hundred and seven millions of mill ions of times per second do not such things sound more like the ravings of mad men lhan the sober conclusions of people in their waking senses ? they are never theless conclusions to which any one may most certainly arrive who will only be at the trouble of examining the chain of rea soning by which they have been obtain ed â€” herschel congress in the house of representatives on the 12th instant mr sianly moved a suspension of the rules to enable him to offer a resolution requesting the president to inquire into ! the truth of reports which represent the hungarian exiles now in new york as being in danger of starvation ; and if so tbat he take steps to relieve their suffer ings and appropriating thousand dollars for lhat purpose mr preston king abolitionist of new york desired to ask a question of the gentleman from north carolina mr stanly said that he answered no questions coming from that quarter of the house mr king desired to know if the gentle man did not vote against the resolution to receive kossuth ? mr stanly replied that his resolution was for exiles not for humbugging gov ernors the question was taken and the house refused to suspend the rules 125 to 46 on tuesday a message was received from the president enclosing a correspon dence between the secretary of state and mr lawrence u s minister to england in relation to a scheme of the british gov ernment for promoting the emigration of free blacks from the u s to the british west indies it appears that mr law rence's attention was called to the sub ject by geo w owen esq of georgia who supposed from the language of a cir cular from earl grey on the subject that it was designed to promote the emigra tion of slaves mr lawrence according ly called on the british minister who promptly assured him that no idea of the kind was indulged ; but that the govern ment being aware of a deficiency of la bor in the west indies had supposed that the people of ihe united states would be glad to get rid ot the numerous free blacks residing among them and would readily unite in promoting their emigration as proposed and further that the persons who desired to emancipate slaves and were obliged to send them out ofthe state would avail themselves of this plan which was designed to pay the expenses of re moval of all such persons of boih classes on wednesday nothing of importance on thursday mr conger endeavored to introduce a resolution going the whole kossuih doctrine of intervention ; but ob jection was made huxngary vs washington it appears from the annual report of the treasurer of the washington monu ment society published in the " intelligen cer of the 10th that bis receipts from the 1st of january to the 31st of december 1851 inclusive amounted to 30,551,54 only the amount expended upon kossuth and his associates since their arrival in this country including contributions to ihe j hungarian fund c probably exceeds this amount six fold it cannot escape the attention the in telligencer most justly says of any true american reader how mortilying a dis proportion there is between the amount contributed towards the erection of the great monumental record of lhe triumph ol free principles and imple republican institutions in the life and character of washington and that which will have been contributed bv our countrymen un der the inlluence ofthe dazzmg glare of a transient foreign meteor through our country and ofthe wild and delusive no tion of propagating our principles among people in another quarter of lhe world who cannot understand them and who.it they did understand them would in all probability reject them as the french people have already done fjq a sulphur spring recently discov ered on the farm of david jordan e-q . in nansemond county va fourteen miles from norfolk is said to have been pro nounced by ptol stewart of bait more to whom the test was confided to be pro bably one ofthe most efficient and vain able'medicinal waters in lhe world it combines the properties of the saratoga with those of the white sulphur waters : and may be said to represent perfectly the water of the far famed harrowgate springs in england lyntmorg i irgm , ian slavery advocated by one of its vic tims â€” on thursday evening last a color i ed man named jones for some years a i slave at the soul h gave an account of his i life at lyceum hall south boston sup posing that of course be would speak a gainst the peculiar institution ofthe south several gentlemen who believe that slave ry is the greatest curse of our country and that it should be abolished cost what it may came forward and assisted in pay ing the expenses ofthe hall much to their surprise however jones took a different view of the matter ap plauding daniel webster for the course he has taken and saying that the happi est part of his life was when he was a slave ; indeed he had no objection to re turning to old yirginny and thought the slaves of lhe south were much hap pier than many persons at lhe north â€” this greatly excited several of the con tributors and two or three gentlemen a rose and endeavored to refute jones he however persevered in his statements till the close of the meeting stopped this dis pute â€” boston eve true , jan 12th cotton thread very few of the thousands of our coun try women says an exmiange paper who are in the daily and'eonstant habit of using the needle are probably aware that they are indebted for the invention of that important article in the various works of domestic manufacture cotton thread to one of their own sex â€” the wife of the patriarch of american manufactures samuel slater a writer in the woon socket patriot states that in 1694 while spinning a quaintity of sea island cotton the evennesss and beauty of the yarn at tracted the attention of mrs slater and the question arose whether if doubled and twisted it would not make good sewing thread the experiment was tried and in order to be fully satisfied with the re sult a sheet was made one half wiih lin en and the oiher half with cotton thread and immediately put in use the cotton wore the best and the linen was the first that was rent from the period mr sla ter commenced the manufacture of cotton thread and it soon spread into england france and other european countries where it is generally supposed to be of english origin â€” though the credit of the invention belongs almost entirely to au american matron pouting room john adams in hiscorrespondence with william cunningham gives the following lively description of a boudoir which we publish by lhe particular request of a la dy that husbands who are afflicted wilh the most disagreeable of all appendages â€” pouting wives â€” may learn how to get rid of the nuisance by a more rational me thod than is usually adopted the object is to make it tolerable to remain at home and not fly lo the pot-house or loafers club for relief " what is a boudoir 1 it is a pouting room and what is a pouting room â€” in many gentlemen's houses in france there is an apartment of an octagonal form twelve or fifieen feet across and thirty-six or forty five feet round aud all the eight sides as the ceiling above are of the most polished glass mirrors ; so that when a man stands in the centre of the room he sees himself in every direction multiplied into a row of self as far as the eyes can extend the humor of it is that when the lady ofthe house is out of tem per when she is angry or when she weeps without a cause she may be locked up in this chamber to pour and see in every di rection how beautiful she is the president has sent a message to the senate recommending thai an appropriation he immediately made lo defray the expenses homo ward of the americans who were engaged in the lopez expedition and have since been par doned by the spanish government ii is lo be hoped ihal favorable action will be had upon this humane recommendation since many of ihoso once deluded men are without doubt utterly des titute of means such is life â€” a half drunken wo man was preambulating the streets of cincinnati on thursday night a rowdy led her into a paint shop on fifth street and daubed her face in mere blackguard wantonness and then took her into a back room where there was a light which dis closed the disfigured lace ol his own mo ther ? extraordinary snow storm â€” at new orleans on tuesday last the snow was six inches deep the first snow storm they have had in that mild climate for many years it is singular that whilst we have had here an intensely cold winter so far there has been no snow we hear of it at \\ il mington charleston new orleans c but only a few fl i.es have fallen h'-re none to be visible on lhe earth â€” faijttle ville observer governor's levee gov r-id's levee on thursday evening la*t a well attended and passed off to tihe evident gratification of all b >*** a pleasant assemblage of aeighbors and friends and was characterized by innocent hilarity and irue so cial enjoyment the governor's aides were liieraiiy heaped wiih ihe " g.Â»od things ol liie served up in lhe most templing manner we saw present a number oi di_iiiigi_i_he persons irom a distance every one must have been impressed by tho cordial and unaffected mariner ol ihe governor and lhe ease and grace with which his amia ble and accomplished lady dispensed the hos pitalities of the executive mansion â€” raleigh standard a western paper sa^s we saw a woman carrying a big hog home from market on saturday upon her shoulder for the benefit of those who may think her husband ought to have done it we will slate that she served him in the same way a short time before i

~ ts7f t n ( ikou-va yak umax i v-,r two dolmt-s-payabl in f ... v ,â€ž.: paid n dvance.two dollars ' â€ž :â€žâ€¢ charged msertrdat Â« i for the firet,and2acts , sequent insertion coai-ordera Â» - u than these rates a lib - Â»!>.' advertise by ihe year r most be post pa.d . in i i.ictlitkal ca lities ov california lvnrew wiihams lately delivered an i mÂ»1 ... i i n the mineral and agricultural f california before a numerous f he friends ol agriculture in san j . address contains one of the â€ž arj statements ol fads we have * ' yu e nre-eiit to our readers a few remaikable passages from a report ' c f . .< tco herald :â€” . o ibe oih't states a single excel ie ii?iic ami predominant the \| . e ib granite of new llamp \ ermont the manufactures ol .. the agriculture ol new york n ,,. pennsylvania ib grain and ,; , and western states the i micbigso he corn lobecco and virginia and kentucky the cotton of . iu aud georgia ihe sugar of louisiana co tton and indigo of texas lhe tur "'>' jiih carolina and ihe rice ol south cutisti'-ute respectively their mosl prom . mctive in.erests and are the pride 0 i iheir citizens bul there is scarce - â– ibal cat.nol he found or produced - ite in ihe natural productions .. lucive io ihe sustenance ot man . lta abundantly prolific pi.roacb ibe centre of the slate the buige lise lemon lhe olive ihe tig ibe nectarine the almond the he pomegranate ol lhe south min us luxuriant gardens ol los an peach the pear ihe cherry ibe m ihe mince and the apple of the north be oak and lhe pine ol gigantic , u j taste furnishing to man and richest and most nutritious food ihe salmon of noble sacramento olten â– ,:, . :â– ,... jv tori v and iu some insiances .... living wiih any eiiher in fineness mil richness ol flavor as well as in ; one uncommon aitide of fine while â– exudation ol a species of pine tree , suyai pine ; the successive range of . whose exleul is losi lo view in the waving with rich harvests of oats the __ productions of lhe soii solid tiees j wood on the hanks ol ihe trinity and statu rivers sixty-eight leei in circumference ; ., whose cavity has sheltered sixteen twenty mules lor the nijjhl ; pines o ibe dizzy peaks of ihe sierra nevada redaiideighiy leet iu height the firsl iwokuttdred and till v leet wiihout a branch or i iab ao extent ul growth so lar beyond the size a lo seem almost incredible but n kouwo and seen and verified by the uni km and ______ rent testimony of many whom ing around me ***** h land owned and cultivated by mr james ii mm and cnion grew lo the enormous _-. i twenty-one pounds ; on ihis same land was grown which equaled exactly in at ibe head of a flour barrel on land own ivaied in thomas follen a cab . grew which measuied while growing feet six inches around iis body ; iis right not known the various cereal grains ng to a height ol irom six to twelve :_'. one red-wood nee in he valley known ! u fremont's iree measures over fifty leet in j tire and is nearly three hundred teet â– .. added lo ihese astonishing productions bi beet grown by mr isaac _-__..._,_... at ! bujose weighing sixty ihiee pounds carrots ! itwleei in length weighing lorly pounds â€” j ** a q js a turnip weighing one hundred la lhe latter cily al a party tor twelve j a miigle potato larger lhan lhe size ' nary bai all partook leaving at least il untouched jii.iv he superlatives but they do exist 1 â– show what our climate and soil are ol producing nor are these more incredible lhan lhe well known fact portion ol our stale nearly six hundred engtb and tilty in breadth whose ev j ground from bill lop to valley is -_ impregnated wilh gold ol every 1 torui and size irom dust up to lumps . thirty pounds j cast our eyes around ihis hall and a e see even bom this hasty collection l contribution ! an agricultural bo geological mineral and floral exhibition j nearly one thousand varieiies of wi bowers ol every hue and of surpass i utcy nearly two hundred varieiies of ii sowers of every hue and ol surpassing â€¢â€¢ nearly two hundred varieiies of â€¢ rated by truthful and beautiful seed of more lhan three thousand v flowers ; twenty varieties of ilbous tools embracing lhe re uii rivaling the finest boast jidding io its healing qualities ovided b nature lor the double purpose .. and abluent properties for ihe native ?; ; specimens of one thousand ' ul i't 1 principle quartz veins and soils : p 'â€¢ about twenty varieties of ihe prin v e * ami clovers many of the specimens , bbrartng the i.urt clover lhat feeds to , [ ! be ratife ol a thousand hills when is parched and withered s mammoth clover whose sialk irom covered an area ol thirty-one square ; ' fine stalks six leet long a half inch " r - am ihe clover head tive inches in ! re ee single stalks of the while lily . " h " luxuriant gardens of alderman ">, ol only iwo months grow'.h - 5 " r seven pounds ; cucumbers rais nj 'Â»". eighteen inches in length ; on m ? ; b ;.; td '<>â– me mr s cbamberlnin and 1 Â«. ub sl1 a " c beven inches in diameter j g ibree and lour pounds each .' thousands pounds to an acre number from ihe acre supposed h j>r n f i 111 pach ; potatoes from mr ,' ' oanta cruz one hundred and iwen - rum five vines of a single hill ; one the carolina watchman j j bruner ) f " keep a check upon alt vour editor a proprietor ) rulers ( new series do this and liberty is safe { gent harrison ( volume viii number 39 salisbury n c thursday january 29 1852 from mr b j sievens of santa clara tliir teen inches in lengih twenty seven inches in circumference and weighing seven pounds and , a hail lhe russian bald barley grown by mr johnson on his ranch upon the banks of bear : river weighing sixty si \ pounds lo lhe bushel with a kernel nearly double lhe size of large wheal raspberries five inches in circumfeience , bailey from the san jose valley of which nine j hundred and sixty-five bushels were produced i ; from less lhan five arres of land ; some from ! the arm of madame scoofv of souora where \ twelve acres by ordinary cultivation produced j a crop of fifty-three thousand pounds these | walls festooned with lucious grapes from capt j vi all by ol los angelos â€” single bunches from j i the garden ol gen vallejo al sonoma weigh j i ing ten pounds ; apples peaches tigs and olher j : fiuils o enormous size from lhe same ; from ' mr horner tomatoes weighing two pounds i each pumpkins and squashes one hundred lo ; one hundred and lorly pounds ; cabbages two leet in diameter and weighing 50 pounds ; on ions beets and potatoes of enormous size not i isolated but by hundreds of bushels the lop j onion produced lhe first season irom the ordina | 'â– ry seed with samples of wheat and barley of uncommon size and weight ; and added lo lhe j exhibition are also beautiful specimens of da ; guerreian and photographic art irom mr shew i and also from mr bradley ; lemon syrup of ex i ceeding excellence manufacluied and exhibited | by messrs sweet and co of this city ; ex j quisite feather work by madame pa a cab d be tides samples and specimens of counties _ varie ; lies of plains herbs vines fruits grains and esculents ol exceeding size and singular perfec tion collected by mr shelion to the enuraer i alion of which lhe proper extent of this address is vvholy inadequate among the tropical pro | duciions introduced by him are coffee ginger banana plantain and pomegranate which are i now in progress of successful cultivation and he has this day received from valparaiso a choice i assortment of rare and valuable exotics the en tire stock ol a greenhouse embracing iwo hou sand of the choicest french and italian grape vines filly varieties choice pear trees six vari eties of plums three of apricots twenty of peach es five of currants and seven thousand aspar agus plains ol flowers there are fifty varie ties ol jessamines four of althea ratres or afri can hibiscus eighi ol chrysanthemums twelve of alihea the wax plant pinks cacti eighty our dahlias and over one thousand rose bushes with its gold or wiihout its gold california must be conlessed a land of wonders ! from the faye.leville observer swallow barn one of the pleasantest books that we have read in many a day is swallow barn or a sojourn in the old dominion it was published some twenty years ago and the edition was long ago sold re cently the author john p kennedy esq of baltimore has published a new re vised illustrated edition which claims a second reading and is welcomed as an old and valued acquaintance the fol lowing chapter prefalory to an admirable slory of a law suit will give some idea of the life like sketches of character with which the book abounds we have an j idea that the author in this sketch intends , to hit off the somewhat celebrated inci dent of the wind saw mill erected by mr j jefferson on one of the highest points of his famous monticello he is said to have j selected lhat site because there the wind would always keep his mill a going and j it was not till the work was almost done j his millwright asked him how he was j oing to get his logs up to the mill on the [ top of the mountain ? " i never thought | of that !" exclaimed he : " stop the work chapter xiv my grand uncle my grand uncle edward hazard the i father of waller was from all accounts a man of an active speculating turn he was always busy in schemes to improve his estate and it is said threw away a great deal of money by way of bettering his fortune he was a gentleman who had spent a considerable portion of his life in england and when he settled him self at last in possession of his patrimony at swallow barn he was filled with mag nificent projects which tradition says to hear him explain would have satisfied any man to a mathematical demonstra tion that with the expenditure ol a tew thousand pounds swallow barn would have risen one hundred percent in value ***** now it must be made known that the tract of land called the brakes belong ing to the tracy family lies adjacent to swallow barn in old times the two es tates were divided by a small stream that emptied into the james river and that is still known by the name of the apple-pie branch this rivulet traverses a range of low grounds for some miles occasional i v spreading itself out into morasses which were formerly and in some places are now overgrown with thickets ot arrow wood nine bark and various other shrubs the growth of this region the main channel of the stream ihrough these tan gled masses was generally distinct enough o be traced as a boundary line although the marsh extended some distance from each bank in the course of this stream there is one point where the higher ground of ihe country stretches in upon the bed ot the marsh from eiiher side so as to leave a gorge of about a hundred yards in j width from both of which eminences the | spectator may look back upon the low lands ofthe swamp lor nearly a mile just at tbat period of the life of my j grand uncle when his fever of improve ment had risen to its crisis and when he was daily creating immense fortunes â€” in bis dreams â€” it struck him upon looking at the fjorge i have described lhat with very little trouble and expense he might ihrow a stout breastwork from one side lo the other and have as line a mill dam as any man could possibly desire it was so simple an operation that he was surprised it bad never occurred to him before and then a flour mill might be erected a short distance below â€” which would cost but a trifle â€” and the inevitable result would be that this unprofitable tract of waste land would thereupon become the most valua ble part ofthe estate i a:n told that it belonged to the char acter of my grand uncle to fall absolutely in love with my new project he turned this one over in his mind for two or three nights ; and it became as clear to him as daylight that he was to work wonders wilh his mill so reflecting that he had but sixteen irons in the fire at ihis time he went to work wiihout a moment's delay the first thing he did was to send an order to bris ' tol for he never had any opinion of the i mechanics at home for a complete set of mill machinery ; and the second lo put j up a house of pine wealher boards for the | mill contemporaneously with this last j operation he set about lhe dam ; and in ' lhe course of one summer he had a huge j breastwork of logs thrown across the path ! of lhe modest diminutive apple-pie which j would have terrified the stream even if it had been a giant as soon as this structure was comple ted the waters began to gather my grand uncle came down every day to look at them and as he saw them gradually encroaching upon the different little mounds ol the swamp it is said he smiled and remarked to his son walter whom he frequently took with him " that it was strange to see what results were produced by human art and it is also told of him that he made his way during this rising ol the waters to a tree in the bed of the dam to notch with his pen knife a point to which the flood would ultimately tend that while stooping to take a level wiih the breast of the dam he lost his balance and was upset into a pool formed by the encroaching element and that when walter expected to see him in a passion at this mishap he rose laughing and ob served that the bed of the dam was a damned bad bed ;" which is said to be the only pun that ever was made in the haz ard family and therefore i have put on record in a few days with the help of one or two rains the pool was completely full ; and to the infinite pleasure of my grand uncle a thin thread of water streamed over one corner of the dam â€” the most beautiful little cascade in the world ; it looked like a glossy streamer ot delicate white ribbon my grand uncle was de lighted " there my boy said he to walter " there is tivoli for you we shall have our mill a going in a week sure enough that day week off went the mill all the corn'of the farm was j brought down to this place and for an j hour or two that morning the mill clat tered away as if it had been filled wilh a j thousand iron shod devils all dancing a | scotch reel my grand uncle thumped j his cane upon the floor wilh a look of tri ; umph whilst his eyes started from his head as he frequently exclaimed to the j people about him " i told you so ; this comes of energy and foresight ; this shows j the use of a man's faculties my boy !" it was about an hour and a half or per j haps two hours as my authority affirms i after the commencement of this racket and clatter in the mill that my grand un cle and all the others who were intent upon lhe operation were a little surprised to discover that the millstone began to slacken in its speed ; the bolting cloth was manifestly moving lazily and the wheels were getting tired presently a dismal screech was heard that sounded like all j the trumpets of pandemonium blown at , once ; it was a prolonged agonizing dia bolical note that went to the very soul in the name of all the irfips ol tarta rus â€” a famous interjection of my grand uncle what is that ." " it's only the big wheel stopped as chock as a tombstone said the miller " and it naturally screech es because you see the gudgeon is new and wants grease hereupon a court of inquiry was instituted ; and leading ihe van followed by the whole troop out went my grand uncle to look at the head gate well not a thing was to be seen there but a large solitary bull-frog squatted on his hams at the bottom of the race and look ing up at bis visiters with the most pite ous and imploring countenace as much as to say " i assure you gentlemen 1 am exceedingly astonished at this extra ordinary convulsion myself which has left me as you perceive naked and dry â€” then the court proceeded upon their in vestigation towards the dam to observe how that came on i can readily imagine how my grand uncle looked when tbe scene here first pre sented itself to his view it must have been a look of droll waggish solemn si lent wonder which lor the time leaves it a matter of perfect doubt whether it is to j terminate in a laugh or a cry in the first ' place the beautiful ribbon cascade was ! clean gone in the second there were all j the little tussocks of the swamp showing ! their small green heads above the surface j of the water which would hardly have j covered one's shoe top ; and there were all j the native shrubs of the marsh bending forwards in scattered groups like a set of i rose bushes that had been visited by a j shower dripping wet and having their slender stalks tangled with weeds and there was towards the middle a litlle line : of rivulet meandering down lo the edge ! of the am and then holding its unambi i tious course parallel with the breastwork ! deploying to the left where it entered tbe i race and tripping along gently down to i the very seat of the bull-frog *' hoity i toity cried my grand uncle after he had paused long enough to find speech here j is some mistake in ihis matter now it is a principle of physics that , an exhausted receiver is the worst thing j in the world to make a draugh upon â€” ! the mill dam was like a bank that had j paid out all its specie and consequently \ could not bear the run made upon it by j the big wheel which in turn having lost ! its credit stopped payment with that hid i eous yell that wrought such a shock upon j the nerves of my grand uncle in vain did the old gentleman ransack | the stores of his philosophy to come at j this principle he studied the case for half an hour examined the dam in every part and was exceedingly perplexed â€” those rascals of muskrats bave been at work said he so the examination was conducted to this point ; but not a hole could be found " the soil is a porous open filtrating kind of soil said the old gentleman it seems to me master said an arch looking negro who was gaping over the flood gate upon the muddy waste that the mill's run out of water who asked you for your opinion you scoundrel said my grand uncle in a great fury â€” for he was now beginning to fret â€” get out of my sight and bold your tongue the fellow is right said the miller we have worked out the water that's clear !" " it's a two hour mill added the negro in a voice scarcely audible taking the risk of my grand uncle's displeasure and grin ning saucily but good humoredly as he spoke it is said that my grand uncle looked at the black with the most awful face he ever put on in his life it was blood red with anger but bethinking himself for a mo ment he remained silent as if to subdue his temper there was something however in the simple observation of the negro that re sponded exactly to my uncle's secret thoughts ; and some such conviction rising up in bis mind gradually lent its aid to smother his wrath how could he beat the poor fellow lor speaking the truth !â€” it was â€” and he now saw it written in characters that could not be mistaken â€” it was after all his trouble and expense and fond anticipations a two-hour mill j stop the mill said my grand uncle \ turning round and speaking in lhe mild j est voice to the miller " stop the mill ; we j shall discontinue ot_r work to-day squire replied the miller the mill has been as silent as a church for the last â– hour " true said mv grand uncle recollect j ing himself come walter we will mount our horses and think over this mat i ter when we get home it is very extra ordinary ! why didn't i foresee this â€” never mind we will have water enough there tomorrow my boy ?" he slowly went to the fence corner and untied his horse and got up into the sad dle as leisurely as il he had been at a fu neral walter mounled his and they both rode homeward at a walk ; my grand un cle whistling malhrouk all the way in an under key and swinging his cane round and round by lhe tassel wonders of the universe w 7 hat mere assertion will make any one believe that in one second ol time in one beat of the penpulum of a clock a ray of light travels over 152,000 miles and would therefore perform the tour of tbe world in about the same time that it requires to wink with our eyelids and in much less than a swift runner occupies in taking a single stride ! what mortal can be made to believe without demonstra tion that the sun is almost a million times larger than the earth and that altho so remote from us a cannon ball shot di rectly towards it and maintaining its lull speed would be twenty years in reaching it : yet it affects the earth by its attrac tion in an appreciable instant of time . who would not ask for demonstration when told tbat a gnat's wing in us ordi nary flight beats many hundred times in a second or that there exist animated and regularly organized beings many thousands of whose bodies laid close to getber would not extend an inch but what are these to the astonishing iru hs which modern optical inquiries have dis closed winch teach that every point ot a medium hrougb which a ray of light pas ses is affected with a succession ol peri odical movements regularly recurtng at equal intervals no less than five hundred millions of millions of times in a single second ! â€” that it is by much movements communicated to the nerves of our eyes that we see ; nay more that it is the dif ference in the frequency of their recur rence which affects us with the sense of the diversity of color that for instance in acquiring the sensation of redness our eyes are affected four hundred and eighty two millions of millions of times ; of yel lowness five hundred and forty two mill ions of millions of limes and of violet seven hundred and seven millions of mill ions of times per second do not such things sound more like the ravings of mad men lhan the sober conclusions of people in their waking senses ? they are never theless conclusions to which any one may most certainly arrive who will only be at the trouble of examining the chain of rea soning by which they have been obtain ed â€” herschel congress in the house of representatives on the 12th instant mr sianly moved a suspension of the rules to enable him to offer a resolution requesting the president to inquire into ! the truth of reports which represent the hungarian exiles now in new york as being in danger of starvation ; and if so tbat he take steps to relieve their suffer ings and appropriating thousand dollars for lhat purpose mr preston king abolitionist of new york desired to ask a question of the gentleman from north carolina mr stanly said that he answered no questions coming from that quarter of the house mr king desired to know if the gentle man did not vote against the resolution to receive kossuth ? mr stanly replied that his resolution was for exiles not for humbugging gov ernors the question was taken and the house refused to suspend the rules 125 to 46 on tuesday a message was received from the president enclosing a correspon dence between the secretary of state and mr lawrence u s minister to england in relation to a scheme of the british gov ernment for promoting the emigration of free blacks from the u s to the british west indies it appears that mr law rence's attention was called to the sub ject by geo w owen esq of georgia who supposed from the language of a cir cular from earl grey on the subject that it was designed to promote the emigra tion of slaves mr lawrence according ly called on the british minister who promptly assured him that no idea of the kind was indulged ; but that the govern ment being aware of a deficiency of la bor in the west indies had supposed that the people of ihe united states would be glad to get rid ot the numerous free blacks residing among them and would readily unite in promoting their emigration as proposed and further that the persons who desired to emancipate slaves and were obliged to send them out ofthe state would avail themselves of this plan which was designed to pay the expenses of re moval of all such persons of boih classes on wednesday nothing of importance on thursday mr conger endeavored to introduce a resolution going the whole kossuih doctrine of intervention ; but ob jection was made huxngary vs washington it appears from the annual report of the treasurer of the washington monu ment society published in the " intelligen cer of the 10th that bis receipts from the 1st of january to the 31st of december 1851 inclusive amounted to 30,551,54 only the amount expended upon kossuth and his associates since their arrival in this country including contributions to ihe j hungarian fund c probably exceeds this amount six fold it cannot escape the attention the in telligencer most justly says of any true american reader how mortilying a dis proportion there is between the amount contributed towards the erection of the great monumental record of lhe triumph ol free principles and imple republican institutions in the life and character of washington and that which will have been contributed bv our countrymen un der the inlluence ofthe dazzmg glare of a transient foreign meteor through our country and ofthe wild and delusive no tion of propagating our principles among people in another quarter of lhe world who cannot understand them and who.it they did understand them would in all probability reject them as the french people have already done fjq a sulphur spring recently discov ered on the farm of david jordan e-q . in nansemond county va fourteen miles from norfolk is said to have been pro nounced by ptol stewart of bait more to whom the test was confided to be pro bably one ofthe most efficient and vain able'medicinal waters in lhe world it combines the properties of the saratoga with those of the white sulphur waters : and may be said to represent perfectly the water of the far famed harrowgate springs in england lyntmorg i irgm , ian slavery advocated by one of its vic tims â€” on thursday evening last a color i ed man named jones for some years a i slave at the soul h gave an account of his i life at lyceum hall south boston sup posing that of course be would speak a gainst the peculiar institution ofthe south several gentlemen who believe that slave ry is the greatest curse of our country and that it should be abolished cost what it may came forward and assisted in pay ing the expenses ofthe hall much to their surprise however jones took a different view of the matter ap plauding daniel webster for the course he has taken and saying that the happi est part of his life was when he was a slave ; indeed he had no objection to re turning to old yirginny and thought the slaves of lhe south were much hap pier than many persons at lhe north â€” this greatly excited several of the con tributors and two or three gentlemen a rose and endeavored to refute jones he however persevered in his statements till the close of the meeting stopped this dis pute â€” boston eve true , jan 12th cotton thread very few of the thousands of our coun try women says an exmiange paper who are in the daily and'eonstant habit of using the needle are probably aware that they are indebted for the invention of that important article in the various works of domestic manufacture cotton thread to one of their own sex â€” the wife of the patriarch of american manufactures samuel slater a writer in the woon socket patriot states that in 1694 while spinning a quaintity of sea island cotton the evennesss and beauty of the yarn at tracted the attention of mrs slater and the question arose whether if doubled and twisted it would not make good sewing thread the experiment was tried and in order to be fully satisfied with the re sult a sheet was made one half wiih lin en and the oiher half with cotton thread and immediately put in use the cotton wore the best and the linen was the first that was rent from the period mr sla ter commenced the manufacture of cotton thread and it soon spread into england france and other european countries where it is generally supposed to be of english origin â€” though the credit of the invention belongs almost entirely to au american matron pouting room john adams in hiscorrespondence with william cunningham gives the following lively description of a boudoir which we publish by lhe particular request of a la dy that husbands who are afflicted wilh the most disagreeable of all appendages â€” pouting wives â€” may learn how to get rid of the nuisance by a more rational me thod than is usually adopted the object is to make it tolerable to remain at home and not fly lo the pot-house or loafers club for relief " what is a boudoir 1 it is a pouting room and what is a pouting room â€” in many gentlemen's houses in france there is an apartment of an octagonal form twelve or fifieen feet across and thirty-six or forty five feet round aud all the eight sides as the ceiling above are of the most polished glass mirrors ; so that when a man stands in the centre of the room he sees himself in every direction multiplied into a row of self as far as the eyes can extend the humor of it is that when the lady ofthe house is out of tem per when she is angry or when she weeps without a cause she may be locked up in this chamber to pour and see in every di rection how beautiful she is the president has sent a message to the senate recommending thai an appropriation he immediately made lo defray the expenses homo ward of the americans who were engaged in the lopez expedition and have since been par doned by the spanish government ii is lo be hoped ihal favorable action will be had upon this humane recommendation since many of ihoso once deluded men are without doubt utterly des titute of means such is life â€” a half drunken wo man was preambulating the streets of cincinnati on thursday night a rowdy led her into a paint shop on fifth street and daubed her face in mere blackguard wantonness and then took her into a back room where there was a light which dis closed the disfigured lace ol his own mo ther ? extraordinary snow storm â€” at new orleans on tuesday last the snow was six inches deep the first snow storm they have had in that mild climate for many years it is singular that whilst we have had here an intensely cold winter so far there has been no snow we hear of it at \\ il mington charleston new orleans c but only a few fl i.es have fallen h'-re none to be visible on lhe earth â€” faijttle ville observer governor's levee gov r-id's levee on thursday evening la*t a well attended and passed off to tihe evident gratification of all b >*** a pleasant assemblage of aeighbors and friends and was characterized by innocent hilarity and irue so cial enjoyment the governor's aides were liieraiiy heaped wiih ihe " g.Â»od things ol liie served up in lhe most templing manner we saw present a number oi di_iiiigi_i_he persons irom a distance every one must have been impressed by tho cordial and unaffected mariner ol ihe governor and lhe ease and grace with which his amia ble and accomplished lady dispensed the hos pitalities of the executive mansion â€” raleigh standard a western paper sa^s we saw a woman carrying a big hog home from market on saturday upon her shoulder for the benefit of those who may think her husband ought to have done it we will slate that she served him in the same way a short time before i